[Peace] Favianna Rodriguez at Allen Hall 2/8-2/12

[Laura Haber]

Favianna Rodriguez – Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/8-2/12
 
Celebrated printmaker and digital artist Favianna Rodriguez will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/8-2/12. She will be speaking and leading workshops each evening of her residency. All events take place in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana unless noted.


Sunday, February 8
7:00pm - Opening Program: Art is a Hammer
There has never been a movement for social change without art and visual communications being central to that movement. Graphics are powerful living reminders of struggles for worldwide peace and justice. Favianna will discuss the process of developing art in collaboration with community-based organizations, her own creative inspiration, and how she has been able to successfully carry out her vision. 
 
Monday, February 9
7:00pm – Linoleum Block Printing Workshop (limited to 25, priority given to Allen Hall residents)
The historical context of printmaking as agit prop along with practice in the techniques needed to produce linoleum block prints without studio facilities or expensive specialized equipment. With an emphasis on hand printing, participants are encouraged to improvise using different textures and colors, learning how to create layered pieces. Participants will produce hand-made prints.
 
Tuesday, February 10
7:00pm – Art Making in the Digital Age Workshop (in the Allen Hall computer lab)
The Internet is one of the most democratic mediums available to us today as artists and activists. We will merge digital media with traditional media, such as printmaking, to create political graphics.
 
Wednesday, February 11
7:00pm – Design for Social Justice 101 Workshop
Learn how to design visually engaging posters for a public education campaign of your choice. We will incorporate graphics from the book Reproduce & Revolt to develop exciting and engaging materials that have political content. Participants will each produce a completed design.
 
Thursday, February 12
7:00pm – Radical Women Artists
How women artists have broken new ground in the fields of performance art, printmaking, digital arts, and video art and examples of how women tackle themes of sexuality, identity, and political equality.
 
 
Favianna Rodriguez uses the arts as a tool for liberation. Since 1998, Rodriguez's pieces have been posted on street corners, store windows, telephone poles, raised at mass rallies and community festivals, or may have found their way into your mailbox. Rodriguez is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an Oakland-based collective of third world artist and community organizers who use the arts as a tool in the freedom struggle. She is the director of Visual Element a graffiti arts organization that trains young graffiti writers to produce political murals in communities of color. She is also the co-owner of Tumi's Design, a multi-service technology and design firm. Implementing advanced graphic & web technologies with a social consciousness, Tumi's seeks to use multimedia to engender global communication between oppressed communities and to promote political art and open forums of expression.
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